4. COMMISSIONING
4.1.5 Could the Department detail actual and
planned expenditure on supra-regional and centrally commissioned
services in each year from 2003-04? (Q31)
Answer
1. Actual expenditure from 2003-04 and planned
expenditure is detailed in table 31 (not printed, available
at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/200910/cmselect/cmhealth/269/excel/excel.htm).
2. Between 2003-04 and 2006-07, this expenditure
was incurred from central Department of Health programme budgets
by the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group (NSCAG),
which was based in the Department since establishment in 1996
(as was its predecessor, the Supra Regional Services Advisory
Group, set up in 1983). Ministers agreed that national commissioning
of highly specialised services should transfer to the NHS in April
2007.
3. On its transfer, NSCAG became known as
the National Commissioning Group (NCG), and reports to the National
Specialised Commissioning Group, a committee that includes representation
from each of the ten Specialised Commissioning Groups established
in each SHA. From 2007-08, expenditure incurred by the NCG on
nationally commissioned services is reported through London SHA
accounts (as the host organisation for the NCG).
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